Your feelings while preparing to attend, attending, and after the group meeting. Did these change from meeting to meeting or group to group? Can you identify a cause for the differences in your experiences?
Section 2 – an analysis of 12-step recovery groups based on your experiences and the related mutual aid / professional literature
There are several options for this section of the paper.
This analysis may be a comparison of the types of groups that you visited using a conceptual framework or theory to help organize your thoughts.
Another option is to choose to analyze your experiences using the concepts provided by a conceptual framework or theory that you are already familiar with, like CBT
A third option is to organize your paper around one of the controversies related to 12-step groups that you find in the literature, for example Harm Reduction vs. total abstinence approach
Any theory or conceptual framework may be utilized in this paper, it is important that you provide well-reasoned arguments for using the particular structure that you choose along with evidence to support your conceptual framework.
Below is a very brief suggested outline for this section of the paper. Your theory or the literature-based controversy will provide the structure of your paper
Explanation of the theory, conceptual framework or controversy; including any specific concepts or organizing principles. Be very clear and explicit
Explanation of the organizing principle’s applicability to the topic. Why did you choose this concept? How does it apply to the topic?